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Global Consciousness Project

C0nc0rdance

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Assumes interest and some biology. Education, not medical advice.

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C0nc0rdance analyzes the Global Consciousness Project, explaining why its claims of mind-matter interaction rely on flawed statistics and cherry-picked data.

I have to admit, I don't follow some of the statistics used in the GCP. I'm relying on experts in the field to decode "Random Walk" plots, some types of Latin Square analysis, and the Stouffer's statistics. The GCP site: noosphere.princeton.edu/ Here are some independent analyses of the GCP on 9/11 (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED), they form the basis for much of my content: lfr.org/lfr/csl/library/sep1101.pdf boundaryinstitute.org/bi/articles/EGG_Salad.pdf Wikipedia on Global Consciousness Project en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Consciousness_Project I have to acknowledge Brian Dunning's take on this topic: skeptoid.com/episodes/4049 I hadn't seen it prior to writing this script, but he arrived at a lot of the same conclusions. Skeptic's Dictionary: skepdic.com/globalconsciousness.html

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What people say. Recommended as a thorough debunking of claims that human minds can influence random event generators.

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On “Can humans influence the outcome of random event generators with their mind?”

TL;DR : The hypothesis is unfalsifiable, relies on confirmation bias and cherry picking of data, has no predictive or explanatory power (in fact, it makes post-hoc predictions), lacks any kind of controls... in every sense, it is pseudo-science. This question has been addressed quite thoroughly at the following locations: link to this video (from YouTube user C0nC0rdance): Skeptoid Article: Unconscious Research of Global Consciousness Global Consciousness on The Skeptic's Dictionary To a lesser extent, the criticism section on the Wikipedia article that you linked to. I'd also like to point out that accepting somebody's words purely on the basis of them having letters in front of their n…
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